Re: [basex-talk] xml element beginning and end space loss

Hi Stefania,

You can avoid it if you create the DB with chopping switched off in the first place.

Or you can supply the chopping option as you go:

db:replace('MyDB', 'doc.xml', '<a> stefy </a>', map {'chop':false()})

Whitespace chooping by default is maybe the most-detested design decision in BaseX, at least among users of mixed content.

Luckily you can switch it off.

Gerrit

On 27/01/2018 00:53, Stefania Axo wrote:

Hi all!

is there a way to preserve the beginning and ending spaces in the Database xml elements?

In other words If I execute this xQuery

db:replace("MyDB", "doc.xml", "<a>  stefy  </a>")

the resulted document will be

<a>stefy</a>

As you can see I lost my beginner and ending spaces.

thanks Stefania